Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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I put myself through college playing pool.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
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I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
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Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?
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Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else’s. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
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The wages of Gin is Debt.
